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There had been, for a short while, a bit of tension in my little clique of friends. Kyle, who typically has impeccable taste in such things, compared the movie version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to The Phantom Menace. Jon meanwhile, declared that he found the movie quite enjoyable and found Kyle's position to be puzzling. I, feeling the need to add my voice to the fray, moved the movie to the top of my netflix queue and watched the DVD as soon as it arrived.

I really liked it. I'm not going to claim that it is some sort of seminal moment in cinema. It isn't Citizen Kane, or The Godfather, or Lawrence of Arabia. It is wonderfully amusing, well acted, well written, and visually stunning. I had forgotten just how compatible my sense of humor is with the Guide. I lost my big blue book a long time ago, but I think I shall replace it soon.

Saturday I am to help Nicole transport some rodents. Her and I are going to drive to South Bend, pick up some Chinchillas, and then drive back. I'm not completely sure why South Bend is the place to do this sort of thing, but I'm told it is. We're even going to meet up in a parking lot, as though we're doing something covert and subversive. I should bring along a large amount of cash in small bills and a dead hooker. No. Wait. What am I talking about? There's no way I could get a dead hooker by Saturday.

I do have a goodly list of things I want to discus with Nicole during the trip. I thought we might start with the Goths and the fall of the Roman Empire, then to dialectical materialism, Keynesian economics, Medieval Judaism (specifically the Jewish Oaths), postmodern literature, quantum electrodynamics, functional programming, the works of Kant, season four of M*A*S*H, the symbology of The Big Lebowski, Alan Turning, Mahler's 5th Symphony, and the River River syndrome. That should cover the first 15 minutes at least.

By the by, there won't be a party on the 22nd. Turned out that somewhere between one and two people could make it. This would have been a very dull party indeed. I'll throw one sometime in November, after I talk to everyone and figure out when the best day is.